CD Image on Hard Disk

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I have a number of games which must be run from their original CD. This makes it a pain when the one I want to play is not the one in the CD tray. Is there some software that will let me install a copy of the CD onto the hard drive such that XP will believe the CD is in the tray?

 

[microAmp]

Game Copy World They have "patches" for no CD's. Install the game normally, apply the *.exe fix and follow whatever directions they have, like copy the Movie folder to the HDD from the CD-ROM, etc...

 

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Thanks but gamecopyworld is mainly for popular "adult/teenager" games whereas what I am looking for is a utility for my son's Disney games that teach him the basics. Sometime back (> 5 years) I remember there being a utility that could copy a CD to a folder on your drive and lead Windows to believe that the folder is a CD drive.

 

[eplebnista]

VirtualCD

 

[boomerang]

Alcohol 120%

 

daemon tools, i don't feel like linking so do a google search, great program for mounting image files, but I'm not sure if it'll rip the images off the cd's, you might need another program for that

 

[straubs]

Originally posted by: boomerang
Alcohol 120%

This is the one you're looking for. Easy to use interface and does exactly what you describe.

 

[TheCorm]

CD Ghost is another one, it adds another drive letter but the files are actually on your hard drive....acts like a fast CD-ROM (150x!!)....in fact...Bout time I got round to installing something like that!

Jamie